Welcome to the website of the Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory (LADAL). LADAL (pronouced lah’dahl) is a school-based, collaborative support infrastructure for digital and computational humanities established and maintained by the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland. LADAL assists with data processing, visualization, and analysis and offers guidance on matters relating to language technology and digital research tools.
LADAL aims to help develop computational and digital skills by providing information and practical, hands-on tutorials on data and text analytics as well as on statistical methods relevant for language research. In addition, the LADAL provides self-guided study materials relevant for computational Natural Language Processing. In order to be attractive to both beginners and people with advanced skills, the LADAL website covers topics and introduces methods relevant for people coming with different degrees of prior knowledge and experience - ranging from introductions to concepts of quantitative reasoning to step-by-step guides on advanced statistical modeling.
Since the primary concern of LADAL is to introduce computational methods that are relevant to research involving natural language, the focus of this website is placed on linguistic data and methods relevant for text analytics. As such, LADAL provides resources for (computational) text analytics and offers introductions to quantitative reasoning, research designs, and computational methods including data visualization and statistics. The areas covered on the LADAL website are
introductions to quantitative reasoning and basic concepts in empirical language studies.
introductions to R as programming environment for processing natural language data.
tutorials on data visualization and data analytics (statistics and machine learning).
tutorials on text analysis, text mining, distant reading, and corpus linguistics.